From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 23:32:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972B637B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:32:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd6mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769CB43ED8 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H7X0081E8Y8KU@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:32:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml8so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.152]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H7X00C868Y87S@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:32:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net [24.82.238.48]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H7X00G6E8Y7MI@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:32:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBU7Wr1C000406; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 01:32:53 -0600 (CST envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: (from robin@localhost) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBU7WrmJ000405; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 01:32:53 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 01:32:53 -0600 From: Robin Damm Subject: Re: Browser delays In-reply-to: <3E0FB3E4.90809@rogers.com> To: Mike Jeays Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: Mike Jeays , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20021230073253.GA212@lulu.bad.dog> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <3E0FB3E4.90809@rogers.com> X-Authentication-warning: lulu.bad.dog: robin set sender to robin@damm.ca using -f Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:48:04PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > When browsing certain web sites, including www.cnn.com, there > is about a 90 second delay when I load the first page; subsequent > pages are quite fast. I don't get the same problem with Windows > 2000. > > Any suggestions, please? Do I need to enable a DNS caching server? The problem may be related to the following bug: If you are experiencing this bug DNS caching will not have any effect because it appears to be a lookup problem within mozilla. However, disabling INET6 in the kernel does provide a nice workaround here. -- Robin Damm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message